Philippians 3:2

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Summary

Philippians 3:2

Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Of dogs

Evil

The

General references

Psalm 35:9

Bible References

Of dogs

Like a dog that returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Alexander the coppersmith did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him in keeping with his deeds.

They are illustrations of this true proverb: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire."

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

Evil

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

On that day, many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, didn't we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do many powerful deeds?'

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.

But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death."

The

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

I know the distress you are suffering and your poverty (but you are rich). I also know the slander against you by those who call themselves Jews and really are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

Listen! I am going to make those people from the synagogue of Satan -- who say they are Jews yet are not, but are lying -- Look, I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

General references

Then I will rejoice in the Lord and be happy because of his deliverance.